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  2. Basic (film) - Wikipedia

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    Basic is a 2003 crime-action thriller film directed by John McTiernan, written by James Vanderbilt, and starring John Travolta, Connie Nielsen and Samuel L. Jackson. It is the second film starring Travolta and Jackson after Pulp Fiction. The story follows a DEA agent solving the mystery of a bungled training exercise that leads to the deaths of ...

  3. The Theoretical Minimum - Wikipedia

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    The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics is a popular science book by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky. The book was initially published on January 29, 2013 by Basic Books .

  4. Basic Instinct 2 - Wikipedia

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    Basic Instinct 2 (also known as Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction) is a 2006 erotic thriller film directed by Michael Caton-Jones, produced by Mario Kassar, Joel B. Michaels, and Andrew G. Vajna, and written by Leora Barish and Henry Bean.

  5. Particle accelerators in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    This book was very popular, a New York Times, bestseller, which introduced the public to an overview of the science of Particle physics. [1] It provides a brief history of particle physics, starting with the Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Democritus, and continuing through Isaac Newton, Roger J. Boscovich, Michael Faraday, and Ernest Rutherford.

  6. Timeline of fundamental physics discoveries - Wikipedia

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    This timeline lists significant discoveries in physics and the laws of nature, including experimental discoveries, theoretical proposals that were confirmed experimentally, and theories that have significantly influenced current thinking in modern physics. Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process.

  7. List of films about mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    Tall Story (1960) – A college physics and mathematics whiz is also the star basketball player, partly because he has devised equations for making baskets. A Serious Man (2009) Incendies (2010) - A graduate student ( Mélissa_Désormeaux-Poulin ), who teaches pure mathematics in Montreal, [ 6 ] travels to the Middle East in search of her ...

  8. Robert Shaw (physicist) - Wikipedia

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    Shaw was one of the pioneers of chaos theory and his work at University of California, Santa Cruz on the subject was among the first research into the relationship between predictable motion and chaos in a landmark PhD thesis.

  9. Particle Fever - Wikipedia

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    Particle Fever is a 2013 American documentary film tracking the first round of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland.The film follows the experimental physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research who run the experiments, as well as the theoretical physicists who attempt to provide a conceptual framework for the LHC's results.